Scott Eden is an investigative reporter whose work has focused on crime, corruption, injustice, business, science, technology, and the dark side of sports.

He has written for ESPN The MagazineGQWiredThe AtavistInc. Magazine, The Believer and many other publications, and his stories have been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing and in The Believer's best-of collection, Read Hard (McSweeney's, 2009).

  • His story "No One Walks Off the Island," about the smuggling of baseball players out of Cuba, was a finalist for the 2015 National Magazine Award in reporting.

  • His story "The Prosecution of Thabo Sefolosha," about an explosive incident of NYPD police brutality, won a 2017 New York Press Club Award, as well as a 2017 National Association of Black Journalists award for investigative reporting.

  • His reexamination of the biggest match-fixing scandal in modern American sports, "The Fix Was in the Whistle," was a finalist for the 2020 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sports Writing.

He’s also the author of Touchdown Jesus (Simon & Schuster, 2005), a book of narrative nonfiction that examines college football fanaticism through the lens of Notre Dame.

Photo by Ryan K. Morris

February 2020, La Pampa, Peru. Photo by Ernesto Benavides

La Pampa, Peru, February 2020. Photo by Ernesto Benavides